“Work in progress” was inspired by a conversation I had with my ukulele teacher. We sometimes get lost in conversations about random stuff (I promise, we do actually work on my ukuele skills as well – even if it doesn’t always show).
Category Archives: Original Songs
“One Day” – Original Song
Some songs are really hard to get out and sometimes a song comes real easy – this is one of the latter ones. It’s called “One Day” and I can’t even tell you how I came up with it…
“Monkey, Monkey, Elephant” – Original Song
Does your mind sometimes wander off and you can’t concentrate on your current task? Do you start with writing an important report and you end up thinking about monkey, monkey, elephant? Well, it does sometimes happen to me and there is this crazy scene from Gilmore Girls that inspired me for this song:
“Fighting the Fraud Police” – Original Song
I introduced you to the fraud police in my blog post about my ukulele retreat last September. And back then I made a note, that “Fighting the Fraud Police” might be a good song inspiration and it was. I’ve had parts of the chorus for months now, and after my songwriting retreat this January IContinue reading ““Fighting the Fraud Police” – Original Song”
“Der Flaneur” – Original Song
Some of you may remember that I told you, that public transport was my second favorite transport mode. Well, here’s a story about my favorite transporte mode: Walking.
“Intervall” – Original Song
So, this is the first song I ever wrote in German. As you maybe read in my post about the songwriting retreat where I wrote the song, I am not very happy with it.
Trying to tear down a wall during my songwriting retreat
I had a great start into the new year and spent the first weekend of 2019 at a songwriting retreat in the beautiful Waldviertel in Lower Austria. As you all know, I started to write my own songs a couple of months ago and I soon felt the need to get more insight, find outContinue reading “Trying to tear down a wall during my songwriting retreat”
“Wrapping it up” – Original Song
I wanted to write a Christmas song… Turns out, that’s pretty hard to do. So the song kinda turned into an end of the year song.
“The Hippopotamus in your life” – Original Song
Here’s another original song. It’s called “The Hippopotamus in your life” and I can imagine that the title alone might cause some questions, so I want to give you a little backstory to the song.
“Public Transport Blues” – Original Song
I wanted to try a blues, and since public transport is my second favorite mode of transport I thought it might be a good topic for a song.